Description: Armand Emamdjomeh is a journalist and web developer at the Los Angeles Times.
Throughout the pandemic, I've managed our coronavirus data tracking pages for our U.S. and international trackers, and have assisted with our regional tracker. In the first few months, as we tried to get a handle on an ever-changing data situation, I helped to bring in engineering resources to turn what was originally a manual update process to a live automated one.
For the pages themselves, we focused on creating clean, simple data visualizations, trying to present the reader with as simple of a view onto a complicated topic.
These two pieces ran as one package looking at the economic impacts of the pandemic in the U.S. I worked with three graphics reporters and coordinated with two different teams on the Business desk to create interactive graphic experiences that explained the complicated data behind these stories to readers.